Sci-Fi Smackdown premiers with Enterprise vs. Galactica

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Podcast - SciFi SmackdownSciFi Smackdown, the latest podcast spinoff of Slice Of SciFi, has show #1 up and ready for your geek edumusement. Listeners to SFSD are invited to send in voicemail, email, and “telepathic mojo” t the show’s hosts. You can feed them ammunition on the topic of which, of any two given Sci-Fi icons, would win in a deathmatch. Think of it as a Jack Mangan’s Duel Of The Fates but done with the technical manuals.

The first match-up, the one that spawned the SFSD podcast:

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) vs. Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined edition)!

Who will win? You’ll have to listen to find out!

Download the first show |MP3|, or subscribe via the podcast feed:

http//www.scifismackdown.com/feed/

posted by Jesse Willis

Broken Sea Audio

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Broken Sea AudioBroken Sea Audio, has now gone live with their Planet Of The Apes audio drama (the one I was spreading rumours about). It looks like a number of other exciting sounding projects in progress too! Broken Sea is another umbrella audio group like Pendant Productions and Darker Projects. That’s a good thing. I listened to the first part of their Planet Of The Apes show and am very interested to see where it is going to go. You can get in on the action by clicking on over to the main site (which seemingly has new features being added by the hour). I’ve also had the chance to listen to the first instalment of their Grog & Gryphon show. Which is a “sword and sorcery fantasy in the tradition of Conan the Barbarian and Lord of the Rings.” Vampires, Amazons, Goblins with attitude, werewolves, ghosts, heroes and evil forces of the dark permeate this tale of high fantasy….

In a distant kingdom, a ragged group of adventurers are forced together to fight a forgotten prophecy of evil. The thread unifying these diverse warriors and mystics- the Grog and Gryphon tavern…Written and Produced by Broken Sea big-wig Bill Hollweg.

Here’s the podcast feed for Grog & Gryphon:

http://www.brokensea.com/grog/grogfeed.xml

And we’ve got the podcast feed for The Planet Of The Apes show too:

http://www.brokensea.com/pota/potafeed.xml

Listen out for more Broken Sea audio soon, I think it will be sounding good!

posted by Jesse Willis

Unabridged NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman in the works

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NeilGaiman.comNeil Gaiman has announced that there is an unabridged reading of his novel Neverwhere set for release this fall! Gaiman writes:

“Yup. I recorded it already. The existence of the extremely abridged version of Neverwhere with the astoundingly truncated ending has always irked me, despite the Brian Eno music and the really solid Gary Bakewell reading, but the license for it has now expired, and I am happy to say that it will vanish from the world.

The new version will be out later this year, probably in the Autumn. I actually recorded it from the ‘author’s preferred text’ version, so it’s the longest version of the text. I loved recording the audiobook, and doing all the voices, and found myself remembering how much I liked all those people, and wanting to write The Seven Sisters all over again.”

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CBC Radio One Radio Drama starts airing April 20th 2007

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CBC Radio OneCBC Radio One audio dramatist Joe Mahoney sez:

“Canadia will begin airing April 20th.”

Canadia is a Science Fiction/Comedy series taking over the time-slot for the very popular Afghanada (which is another in-house CBC Radio dramatic series – following a fictional squad of Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan). Not many details on Canadia can be found at this time. But well keep you apprised.

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Datajunkie blog posts X-Minus 1 and Dimension X MP3s

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Datajunkie BlogMore content on the DATAJUNKIE blog with blogger “hyperdave” re-uniting the great SF pulp illustrations from with the radio show versions of the stories. He’s posted shows from X Minus 1 and Dimension X. You can view the original art that accompanied the short stories in the DataJunkie post or just listen to the shows as I’ve listed them below. Note: There’s are two different versions of Nightfall by Isaac Asimov!

Mr. Costello, HeroX-Minus 1: Mr. Costello, Hero
By Theodore Sturgeon; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1956

An innocuous game of five-card draw leads to paranoia and more aboard a spaceship with only one passenger.

Mr. Costello, HeroX-Minus 1: Honeymoon In Hell
By Frederic Brown; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1956

In the future (the late 1960’s), a crisis has hit the earth. Very few boys are being born. An American cybernetics operator and a Soviet scientist are teamed to see if they can conceive a male child on the moon.

Mr. Costello, HeroDimension X: Kaleidoscope
By Ray Bradbury; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1951

A heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere–without the benefit of a spaceship.

Mr. Costello, HeroDimension X: Nightfall
By Isaac Asimov; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1951
Lagash is located in a stellar system containing six stars, which keep the whole planet continuously illuminated; total darkness is unknown, as are more distant stars. “Nightfall” occurs once every 2,049 years.

Mr. Costello, HeroX-Minus 1: Nightfall
By Isaac Asimov; Performed by a FULL CAST
1 MP3 – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcast: 1955

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Podcast 411 interviews Christiana Ellis

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Podcast 411Podcast411, and host Rob Walsch talk to Christiana Ellis, of Nina Kimberly The Merciless fame, about her upcoming podcast, SciFi Smackdown. You can get the interview in |MP3| format, but subscriptions to Podcast411 are especially useful to people new to podcasting, here’s the podcast feed for it:

http://www.podcast411.com/feed.xml

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